The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-05
WILLIAM WHEELER DEAD.
Peaceful End of an Ex-Vice President
His Life and Services.

Peaceful End of an Ex-Vice President
His Life and Services.
WATERFOWL, n. Y, June 4.-Hon. Will
liam A. Wheeler died at his home at 1910
o'clock this morning. He was in a COM
posed condition during the night and passed
peacefully away without sign of any
recognition of those about him.
THE LAST MOMENTS
MALONE, n. Y, June 4.-The death of
ex-Vice President Wheeler, which occurred
at 1910 a. m. to-day, was painless, and his
life went out so gradually and quietly that
it was hard to mark the exact moment of
its flight. Though his vitality had been de
creasing slowly through the past six years
Mr.. Wheeler retained his vitality up to
within perhaps six months ago. From
that date ne had failed rapidly. He was
tortured terribly by insomonia and neu-
ralgia, and was also afflicted with catarrh
of the bladder The night of March 3
last he was seized with a chill,
followed by sinking spell and then by a
fever, and for hours his physician thought
him dying. He never fully rallied from that
attack, and his mind and body have wasted
together. There has probably been soften
ing of the brain, too, and for weeks he had
been irrational This brain affection was
the immediate cause of his death. On Mon
day last he sank into condition of uncon-
seriousness, from which he never aroused,
except for a moment or two at a time and
from which time he had not spoken nor
given any sign of recognition of his friends
or of what was transpiring about him.
Mr.. Wheeler had no near relative in the
world to minister to him during his illness
or to watch by his side at his death, but the
relatives of his deceased wife and the
friends who have been bound to him from
boyhood by the closest ties Of affection, who
were tender in their solicitude for him, and
a few Of them were grouped with his pastor
and the physician about him when the final
summons came.
The approach of death was SO gradual
that it caused no public shock, even here at
his home though there is universal sorrow
among the people. All the flags are at half
mast, and emblems of mourning will be
displayed. The funeral will be held at l
o'clock Tuesday, June Z, at the Congrega-
tional church, with a sermon by the pastor,
second father. A meeting of citizens
will be held this evening to
appoint the committee to arrange
for a citizens memorial service to be held on
Tuesday evening, and at which the men who
were associates and friends of his youth and
mature manhood, will voice their own and
the country's love for him.
IGeSlQellU CleVeldllu, VINO Is III uHe NCtlfOi-
dacks and within a few hours ride from
here has been apprised of Mr.. Wheelers
death and the time of the funeral
The following telegram has been received
from eX-President Hayes:
FREMONT, O.. June 4, 1887
Mrs. Hayes and have heard with the deepest
sorrow of the death of our friend Mr. Wheeler,
will attend the funeral with my son.
R. g. HAYES.
William A. Wheeler was inaugurated
Vice President in 1871. He came into con
siderable prominence in the Forty-third
Congress in connection with troubles in
Louisiana, which were adjusted by what is
known as the wheeler Compromise. He
was born at Malone, n. Y, June 30, 1919.
He spent two years at the University Of
Vermont, and, at the age of 81, began the
study of the law. At the end of four years
he was admitted to practice in his native
town. He held a number of minor offices,
and in 1916 was elected District Attorney
Of his county. He was sent To the Legisla-
ture as Wing in 1S49 and 1850,
and was a member of the State
Senate in 1859 and 1860. In
the latter year he was elected TO Congress
and serVedcne term. He was President Of
the Constitutional Convention OF Now York
i'm 1867. and in 1868 was again elected to Con-
gress lie WAS three times elected in slc-
cession In 1876 he was nominated for Vice
President lie acted with the Republican
marty from rs organization. He was man
of fair ability, and was highly respected by
the Republican leaders. As he filled see
ondalry place he was not particularly CON
spicuous during the remarkable contest for
the Presidency in 1S16-i1 in which the will
Of the people as expressed at the ballot-box
was defeated.